WHAT HYPOCRITES!

Tonight was the much vaunted (you don't know how long I've wanted a reason to use that word) episode of the HBO Mini-series "Big Love" about a fundamentalist polygamist Mormon family, where a hereto sacred secret rite of the Mormon Church was depicted featuring the show's main female star, Jeanne Tripplehorn. According to the show's producers, the scenes were written with great attention to accuracy down to the white veils worn by the women.

During the past week, the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Voiceover here: "The Mormons") wrangled in the media how they felt it was "offensive" to Mormons to have this rite being shown on television...although the depictions of the rite are readily found on the good ol' Internet. HBO did the corporate thing by "apologizing" (read: "appeasing") the Mormons although they continued with their plans to show it. On the other hand, the official position of the LDS church was not to ask for an official boycott of HBO and its corporate daddy, Time Warner. It was the same kind of PR mud wrestling that the Catholics blustered over with the release of "The Da Vinci Code" -- which I found to be a VERY boring and wandering movie. (Of course, the other little untold story that "Big Love"'s executive producers, Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, are a gay couple, and I wouldn't put it past them that this was their way of retribution against the Mormons for their less-than-Godly conduct in California politics.)

Notwithstanding, my suggestion to the Mormons at this point would be for them to FUCKING SHUT UP. The official image of the Mormons would be for them to be a God-fearing goody-two shoed Shirley Temple/Mrs. Brady-like religious faith. But in actuality, as someone who almost joined the sect, the Mormons are a faith/belief system bred in a dark mythology wrought with politics and very strange rites.

I find it very interesting on one hand the Mormons are screaming and yelling about how the sanctity and privacy of one of their religious rites. Yet, the Mormons think nothing about prying and legislating themselves into the sanctity of private bedrooms of gay Californians by spending tens of millions of dollars to bring to victory a California state proposition which effectively bans homosexual marriages.

Mmmmmmmmm....somehow the old wise saw, "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks," comes to mind...especially apropos for a religious sect who loves to build big glass temples....and delights with the concept of stoning a group of people which it deems as not worthy to breath air, much less, love as their hearts leads them to love.